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- 'Night' has great potential - by Ed Sholinsky for the Michigan Daily. Positive review overall, though Joshua Malina is panned.
www.pub.umich.edu/daily/1998/sep/09-22-98/arts/arts1.html
- 'Sports Night' a gift for the thinking viewer - Dusty Saunders lauds the show for the Denver Rocky Mountain News.
insidedenver.com/saunders/1024dust1.shtml
- 'Sports Night' deserves another season - Dusty Saunders for the Denver Rocky Mountain News
www.insidedenver.com/saunders/0506dusty.shtml
- 'Sports Night' has a bumpy ride on ABC - Rick Kushman for The Sacramento Bee. Report of some progress in the fight about canned laughter on the show.
cgi.sacbee.com/news/beetoday/newsroom/ent/020999/ent01.html
- 'Sports Night' most `cluttered' in '98 prime time - by Lisa de Moraes, originally for the Washington Post, re-published in the Lexington, Kentucky Herald-Leader. About the unusually high percentage of non-programming content shown during Sports Night.
www.kentuckyconnect.com/heraldleader/news/041499/communitydocs/clutter14.htm
- 'Sports Night' one of best players in season's starting lineup - Rob Owen for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
www.postgazette.com/magazine/19980922sports5.asp
- 'Sports Night' plot will include Guillaume's stroke and recovery - from the Detroit Free Press
www.freep.com/fun/tv/qfill18.htm
- 'Sports Night' Scores with Offbeat Mix - Review by John Kiesewetter of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
enquirer.com/columns/kiese/1998/12/121498jki.html
- 'Sports Night' tries a double play - Review from the New Jersey Star-Ledger
www.nj.com/features/ledger/b5369c.html
- A Few Good - Review by Phillip Michaels for TeeVee.com
www.teevee.org/archive/1999/04/12
- ABC should give 'Sports Night another swing at it - Mark Dawidziak of the Cleveland Plain-Dealer looks at some of the reasons ABC should renew Sports Night despite disappointing ratings.
www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf?/tv/columns/mark/032800.html
- ABC's "Sports Night" isn't "M*A*S*H," but it's getting there. - Review by Robert David Sullivan for The Boston Phoenix
weeklywire.com/filmvault/boston/s/sportsnighttv1.html
- ABC's 'Sports Night' - Brian Ford Sullivan of The Futon Critic takes "an inside look at TV's most unique series."
www.thefutoncritic.com/cgi/gofuton.cgi?action=features&id=1
- ABC's cancellation of `Sports Night' is an opportunity for HBO - Kinney Littlefield criticizes ABC's handling of Sports Night, and reports on the possibility of the show being picked up by HBO.
www.kcstar.com/item/pages/fyi.pat?file=fyi/37747e65.526
- After a debilitating stroke, Robert Guillaume returns to 'Sports Night' - Mike Duffy for the Detroit Free Press
www.freep.com/fun/tv/qduf3.htm
- Brilliant "Sports Night" is a sitcom like no other - Ann Mullen of the Detroit Metro Times lauds the show for its compassion, depth, warmth and intelligence.
www.metrotimes.com/20/27/Columns/videobot.html
- Comedy and drama and sports? - a positive review by Tim Goodman for the San Francisco Examiner
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/1998/09/22/STYLE9053.dtl
- Death of the Sitcom - long article by Steve Lopez for Entertainment Weekly. Sports Night is discussed on pages 3 and 4 as an example of innovation.
www.pathfinder.com/ew/archive/1,1798,1|25599|0|Death_of_the_Sitcom,00.html www.ew.com/ew/archive/1,1798,1|25599|0|Death_of_the_Sitcom,00.html
- Digital City - Boston - TV Gal - Amy Amatangelo previews the season finale.
home.digitalcity.com/boston/tvgal/main.dci?page=tvar0503
- Distinct? Or Extinct? -- Sports Night is so innovative it could become a new evolutionary stage of the sitcom--if it lasts - James Collin for TIME
cgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/1998/dom/981109/the_arts.television.dis1a.html
- Entertainment Weekly - Fall TV Preview - Brief review of the show.
www.ew.com/ew/features/980911/falltvpre/sportsnight.html
- Four months back - Tim Goodman for the San Francisco Examiner. Lament of the summer hiatus.
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/1999/05/03/STYLE11457.dtl
- Good 'Sports' - An EW Daily blurb by Sandra P. Angulo
www.ew.com/ew/daily/0,2514,2050,sportsnightspremierefeatures.html
- Guillaume's absence leaves his show in a fix - by Alan Johnson of the Chicago Tribune. Speculation about how Guillaume's heart attack would affect the first season story line.
www.freep.com/fun/tv/qguill2.htm
- If ABC counts 'Sports Night' out, there may be other takers - Gail Shister of the Philadelphia Inquirer reports on the possibility of NBC or HBO picking up Sports Night if ABC cancels it.
www.phillynews.com/inquirer/2000/Mar/21/magazine/SHIS21.htm
- Kilborn inspires Casey character - from the Freep. Craig Kilborn of ESPN SportsCenter inspired Casey on the show.
www.freep.com/fun/tv/qcraig9.htm
- Malina Gets Into the Swing of `Sports Night' / But critically acclaimed show may need a ratings boost to survive second season - Blurb by Sylvia Rubin for the San Francisco Chronicle which explains how Joshua Malina once saved Aaron Sorkin's life.
sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/10/05/DD1481.DTL
- More viewers needed for 'Sports Night' - John Kiesewetter for The Cincinnati Enquirer. article about the show's rankings and demographics
enquirer.com/columns/kiese/1999/02/08/jki_more_viewers_needed.html
- NPR Weekend Edition [RealAudio File] - Elvis Mitchell discusses the show with host Scott Simon
www.npr.org/ramfiles/wesat/19981031.wesat.12.ram
- Readers send cyber darts in defense of favorite shows - Response to Mike Duffy's critical review of the show in the Detroit Free Press.
www.freep.com/fun/tv/qduf23.htm
- Review by Charlie Patton for the Jacksonville Times-Union - "ABC's 'Sports Night' hard to categorize, but very enjoyable"
www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/111098/ent_S1110TVR.html
- Sitcom survival - Nancy McAlister for the Jacksonville Times-Union. about the prospects for Frasier, Becker, Sports Night, and Home Improvement
www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/013199/ent_0131Sitc.html
- Sports Night: A Higher IQ Than Any Other Half-hour Comedy - Review from Stomp Tokyo's TV diary.
www.stomptokyo.com/tvdiary/Columns99/sportsnight.htm
- SportsJones.com - Review by Jeff Merron.
www.sportsjones.com/sportsnight.htm
- Working stiffs: a review of the TV shows 'Dilbert' and 'Sports Night,' - by Joyce Millman for Salon Magazine
www.salonmagazine.com/ent/tv/mill/1999/02/22mill.html
- The Best Show You're Not Watching - TV Guide's Matt Roush calls Sports Night "an acquired but delectable taste" and looks at reasons why this unique show has difficulty finding an audience. (Contains spoilers for the 3/14, 3/21, and 4/4 episodes.)
www.tvguide.com/magazine/issues/000306
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